When Boone's family learned the man suspected of taking Boone's life is the son of a Milwaukee County judge, they were worried about how the justice system would work in the case. They say they're breathing a sigh of relief after learning prosecutors may come from the state level.

Marquette Law School professor Greg O'Meara was a Milwaukee County prosecutor for six years. When he heard the suspect in Sunday night's Kilbourn Reservoir Park murder is the son of a judge, he says he understood how that changed the justice process.

"The job of a prosecutor has a lot of discretion. A prosecutor appears before this judge all the time. Someone from the prosecutor's office will constantly be in this courtroom," O'Meara said.